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Subject: Re: Waiting for the REAL LightWave 4.0?
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>From: davewarner@globalone.net
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 03:09:20 -0400
>Subject: Waiting for the REAL LightWave 4.0?
>To: LightWave Mail List <lightwave-l@netcom.com>
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> This may be a stupid question, but I'm gonna ask it anyhow....since I have
>my copy of LightWave 3.5 Standalone but don't have a PC yet, I don't have
>any real need to upgrade LW 3.5 to LW 4.0 PC right now. So, I'm wondering,
>will NewTek's $150 upgrade policy still apply a few months(?) down the road
>when the real, bug-free version of LightWave 4.0 comes out? I'm still
>pretty far away from being able to afford a PC at this point, and frankly,
>I'd much rather get a PowerMac with one of the soon-to-be-released Pentium
>cards installed so I can take advantage of the best of both worlds!
>
> So is there any chance that NewTek is gonna change their minds anytime
>soon and those of us who don't upgrade to LW 4.0 now will be left in the
>cold??
>
> -David Warner
>Event Horizon Graphics
>
I'm in the same boat, I have 3.5 but not the cash at the moment for 4.0- and
some more memory. As for the PC, it looks like some '060 card will be
shipping soon, so there might not be that much of a reason to essensually
start over, after all most people I hear going for the PC are doing it for
the Pentium and maybe ports of PhotoShop (I'd do it for TieFighter :) ).
By this time next week we should know who owns the Amiga (no bull: the
auction started yesterday and is ment to run a week), and things should be
in better shape as far as continued support- face it, the new owners would
have to try VERY hard to do wose than the old U.S. managment.
Anyways, if you have an AGA system, check out Photogenics, it looks like it
could PhotoShop for the rest of us, I played with a demo-disk from
AmigaFormat, it already has a new version out (1.1- more loaders, effects)
and I e-mailed with one of the developers (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk), and
it sounds like they really are moving it along feature-wise, ask him if